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Phenacodus
Sign in to savePhenacodus (Greek: "deception" (phenax), "tooth' (odus)) is an extinct genus of mammals from the late Paleocene through middle Eocene, about 55 million years ago. It is one of the earliest and most primitive of the ungulates, typifying the family Phenacodontidae and the order Perissodactyla.
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Vinony's link graph records 234 inbound references to Phenacodus, and connects out to rhinoceros, Tapiroidea and odd-toed ungulate.
It is catalogued under topics including Eocene mammals, Fossil taxa described in 1873 and Paleocene mammals.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Phenacodontidae
- Image
- Phenacodus.jpg
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- taxon name
- Phenacodus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Phenacodus
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- temporal range start
- Thanetian
- temporal range end
- Ypresian
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Phenacodus (Greek: "deception" (phenax), "tooth' (odus)) is an extinct genus of mammals from the late Paleocene through middle Eocene, about 55 million years ago. It is one of the earliest and most primitive of the ungulates, typifying the family Phenacodontidae and the order Perissodactyla.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phenacodus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.